Tag Archives: ajax

The Ajax Myth

Mis-Information Week perpetuates the myth that Web 2.0 is all about AJAX. The standfirst to the article lays the groundwork, suggesting that this is purely about technologies, when surely approaches would be a better way to begin:

To bring your site into the Web 2.0 world, you need to know about Ajax, ActiveX, RSS, and other [...]

The Gospel According to AJAX

Just to note that we now have a Web 2.0 bible. Lots of dynamically refreshing goodness, social networking and tags. Seriously, you can tag the bible.
Also a good excuse for some serious punnage: second coming, blessed be the tooltips, in the beginning was the CSS. (insert favourites below)

Good News for Homepage 2.0

It’s not important for you to know my name -
Nor I to know yours
If we communicate for two minutes only
It will be enough
For knowing that someone in this world
Feels as desperate as me -
And what you give is what you get.
It doesn’t matter if we never meet again,
What we have said will always remain.
If we [...]

Getting to know you

Personally, I can’t abide text chat. Not enough time for me to think (email) and no real-life presence (phone). However, my new series, This-Guy-Emailed-Me-About-His-New-Product (as in this and this), continues apace.
Charles Landemaine contacted me about Interaction, a text chat application that can be inserted into any web page. This AJAX product comes in three flavours. [...]

Back to school

So it’s Number Two in what appears to be my impromptu new series, “I don’t really do product stuff, but this guy emailed me…”. Alex Weidmann was kind enough to get in touch about his new Web 2.0 service, mynoteIT, and then to answer my rude questions about the business behind it.
Again, this has been [...]